附註:Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' General Introduction; Translator's Note; Chronology of Vicente Pérez Rosales; Introduction; Times Gone By; I Why the Santiago 1814 to 1822 can't hold a candle to the Santiago of 1860.; II Valparaíso. -- My first lesson in international law. -- Francisco de la Lastra. -- José Miguel Carrera.- The defeat at Rancagua. -- Osorio. -- Juan Fernández. -- Juan Enrique Rosales. -- His daughter Rosario. -- My mother is imprisoned. -- Felipe Santiago del Solar.
Includes bibliographical references.
摘要:These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Perez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his activities and adventures took him on several journeys on sailing vessels around Cape Horn; to Paris, where he witnessed the July revolution of 1830; to various commercial endeavors including a distillery, the practice of medicine, and cattle smuggling; into service as an advisor to an Argentine warlord; as.
